Following Belgium and the Netherlands, Luxembourg has decided to legalise euthanasia despite the resistance of the head of state - the deeply Catholic Grand Duke Henri, who refused to sign off the bill.
After the death of Eluana Englaro, some Italians are publishing videos on the internet in which they request the right to die should they ever fall into an irreversible coma. But the country remains deeply divided on euthanasia.
The dramatic death of Eluana Englaro, the 38-year-old comatose woman in the centre of a fierce right-to-die debate in Italy, sparked emotional responses from the Vatican, Italian senators and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Thirty-eight-year-old Eluana Englaro, who had been in a coma for 17 years, died on Monday night. The Senate was in the midst of debating a law that would have forced the clinic where Englaro was hopitalised to resume feeding her.
Italy's senate was to convene an emergency session on Monday aimed at preventing the mercy killing of Eluana Englaro, an accident victim who has been in a coma for 17 years and whose family won a court battle to halt her life support.
An emergency Senate session has been brought forward to Monday after doctors began withdrawing life support from comatose patient Eluana Englaro in a process they said would become irreversible within five days.
The pro-Berlusconi Italian cabinet gave unanimous backing to an emergency decree stopping the family of a 38-year old woman from removing her from life support. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign the decree.
Italy's top court ruled last year that Eluana Englaro, 38, in a vegetative state since a 1992 car crash, be allowed to die. But the decision was contested by politicians and prelates and split public opinion. The controversy goes online.
The controversy surrounding euthanasia in Luxembourg and France has whipped up a heated debate, as supporters and opponents - led by religious groups -.battle it out on the Internet. Also in our show: bloggers mobilise to save flood-stricken Venice.
France should not recognise the "right to die", according to politician and doctor Jean Leonetti, blocking the way for France to become a destination for those looking to die. France should, however, recognise the right "to let die".
